Monday, December 24, 2012

A new series was added to Henry Stewart Talks: Calcium Signaling II: Calcium and Disease. There have also been talks added the the series Biomarkers: the path forward to highly sensitive and specific molecular diagnostics. A special thank you to Dr. Gregory Kopf for making this resource available to the University community.

Monday, November 26, 2012

AAMC has published "Diversity in Medical Education: Facts and Figures 2012," the 17th data book in the Facts & Figures Data Series. This publication
provides students, medical educators and administrators, researchers,
policymakers, and the general public with a compendium of detailed statistical
information on race and ethnicity and gender in medical education in the United
States for the 2011 academic year as well as nearly a decade’s worth of
trending information for select topics. The publication also includes data
related to the pre-college component of the education pipeline leading to the
M.D. degree and other health sciences and health professions careers.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

We've recently had reports from students unable to view PDF articles in Ebscohost databases on their home computers. Databases we've heard about include Health Business Full Text Elite and Professional Development Collection. CINAHL is likely affected as well.
The problems seem to be specific to a combination of Ebscohost, Adobe Reader, and Internet Explorer 9. Ebscohost embeds a PDF viewer, but you should be able to workaround the problem by opening the PDF in a new browser window:

First, add your articles to a Folder in Ebscohost then go to your Folder.

Right-click on one of the PDF Full Text links there.

Select either "Open in new window" to view the PDF in your browser or "Save target as..." to immediately download and save the PDF file.

Aside from the workaround demonstrated in the video, here are some possible, but unverified, long-term solutions to the problem:

We've heard from one campus Support Technician that just uninstalling IE9 may resolve similar problems in other browsers you might have installed, such as Firefox and Chrome. IE9 includes many additional security features that interfere with opening and viewing files from the web.

If your computer's operating system is a 64-bit version of Windows, try switching to 32-bit Windows and 32-bit browsers.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Following are my notes from today's Basic LTI session of Atlas System's Ares Virtual Conference. We're planning to take advantage of Basic LTI once Blackboard replaces Angel as the primary course management system on campus. Basic LTI between Ares and LCMS+ is also likely assuming LCMS+ adds support for Basic LTI.

Atlas Systems Ares Course Reserves Basic LTI webinar

LTI v1.0, released May 2010 : No support for callback messages from Ares to CMS. Such callbacks are supported in LTI v1.1, but Ares never passes data back to CMS. Data flow is one-way from CMS to Ares: : CMS -> Basic LTI -> Ares Web Service -> Ares Web DLL (pages)Basic LTI points to "responder", Ares in this case. : Term "responder" is confusing; it's really a "consumer" of CMS info, but "consumer" is used to refer to the CMS' relationship to Ares? Strange.Ares config : LTIConsumers Table : Ares Web URL field designates the page to display (e.g. for different audiences, CMSs. We might want the Ares response page for BlackBoard to look different from LCMS+). : LTIFieldMappings : Map Ares fields to LTI fields. Limited by values sent from CMS.CMS config : "Launch URL" = http://ares.host.name/ares/webservice/BasicLTI : Consumer Key and Secret : view all available CMS params with Ares test link = http://ares.host.name/ares/webservice/BasicLTI/ShowLTIParams

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Dykes
Library invites you to celebrate Open Access (OA) Week with us starting next Monday! The library will hostevents to promoteOA and its benefits for the academic and research community. These events will culminate inan exciting announcement of our new KU One University Open Access Publishing Fund!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A special thank you to University Leadership for working with the Faculty Assembly Information Resources Committee and Dykes Library personnel in making additional funding available to Dykes Library to support collections (journals) for researchers, faculty, clinicians, students.

Information is not free and continued inflation of the current journal list makes sustaining the status quo untenable. With the support of University Leadership the cancellations for FY2013 will not be as aggressive as believed in the Spring of 2012.

With input from your faculty representatives to the Faculty Assembly Information Resources Committee (FAIRC) and Dykes Library personnel, the revised journal cancellation list is now available. We will again purchase monographs and will discuss with FAIRC criteria by which those funds should be allocated and expended - print or electronic monographs.

During the Fall semester working with University Leadership and FAIRC, it appears that a work group will be formed to develop a plan to address a more reasonable and sustainable method of supporting information and services needs of researchers, faculty, clinicians and students. Stay tuned. We will keep the University community updated.

The updated FAQ identifying how these cancellation decisions were made is here for your review.

Thank you again to the support of FAIRC members and University Leadership.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Dykes Library's NN/LM Biomedical Librarian Rachel Vukas will be presenting about new developments on PubMed
Wednesday, September 26 at 2 p.m. CT.

This free, one-hour
online training only requires computer access and a phone. Visit this URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr2/ then login as a guest with your
first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once
you’ve logged in. Captioning will be provided.

This online training is made available through National Network of Libraries of Medicine MidContinental Region (NN/LM). See more information and learn more about additional NN/LM training opportunities here.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Be sure to stop by and enjoy Jean Howard: On Site, a beautiful new art collection on display at Dykes Library’s
second floor gallery!

Jean Howard: On Site includes works painted "en plein air" by
Howard during her travels around the world. "En plein air" literally
translates as "in the open air" and describes works that are created
out-of-doors working directly from nature. This sampling of pieces painted in
Mexico, Italy, Greece, China, New Mexico, England, France, and Morocco function
as a visual travel journal and convey a sense of place and light.

Jean Howard is an accomplished
painter and educator. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and
Drawing and a Doctorate in Visual Arts Education from the University of Kansas.
She taught painting and drawing at Johnson County Community College for more than two decades and holds the title of Professor Emeritus. Her works have been
widely exhibited regionally. Many of her former students, now working artists, acknowledge
her as a major influence in their careers.

Jean
Howard: On Site is
available for your viewing pleasure at Dykes Library through November 11.

As a licensed resource be sure that when you are off campus you have signed on to licensed resources through the proxy server using CAS.

For those of you not familiar, The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection provides access to over 1,500 talks each specially commissioned from leading world experts. The talks are in the format of slides with synchronized narration and are arranged into comprehensive series. The talks are ideal for independent research and for teaching including distance learning. For advice on how best to use the talks in teaching or for assistance in identifying relevant talks please contact beth@hstalks.com

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

EndNote is a software application that is used to store and organize the bibliographic information that comprises citations. And, EndNote is designed to house and search the full text of journal articles, including your annotations! With EndNote's integration with Microsoft Word, creating a bibliography becomes a seamless part of the writing process.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Select different font sizes to view content. Users can select desired font size (small, medium, large, and largest) from the icons in the upper right corner of MD Consult. The selected font size will persist from page to page, but will reset when the user starts a new session.

Modify fonts for Patient Education handouts. To change the font size, be sure to use MD Consult's print features, and not your browser's print option.

An option in Patient Handouts to add additional blank space for written instructions when printing the handout. Simply click the checkbox and then hit save before you print.

When searching for a drug, the Best Bets result now displays links for different sections of a drug monograph (patient education, indications/dosage, contraindications/precautions, interactions, adverse reactions).

QR Codes are displayed on all printed content pages, except patient education handouts and drug monographs. Scanning the code with your mobile device will take you to the URL of the printed material. Again, you must use the MD Consult print feature to print the QR Code.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Great News!

A special thank you to University Leadership for working with the Faculty Assembly Information Resources Committee and Dykes Library personnel in making additional funding available to Dykes Library to support collections(journals)for researchers, faculty, clinicians and students.

Information is not free and continued inflation of the current journal list makes sustaining the status quo untenable. With the support of University Leadership, the cancellations for FY2013 will not be as aggressive as believed in the Spring of 2012. With input from your faculty representatives to the Faculty Assembly Information Resources Committee (FAIRC) and Dykes Library personnel, there will be a revised journal cancellation list forthcoming. Further, we will be able to again purchase monographs and will discuss with FAIRC criteria by which those funds should be allocated and expended.

During the Fall semester, working with University Leadership and FAIRC, it appears that a work group will be formed to develop a plan to address a more reasonable and sustainable method of supporting the information and services needs of researchers, faculty, clinicians and students. Stay tuned. We will keep the University community updated.

In the next 30 – 45 days we will prepare a revised list of cancellations and an updated FAQ identifying the "how" these cancellation decisions were made. That FAQ will be made available on the Dykes website.

Thank you again to the support of FAIRC members and University Leadership.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

UCSF IMPLEMENTS POLICY TO MAKE RESEARCH PAPERS FREELY ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC
Health Sciences Campus Becomes Largest in Nation to Adopt Open-access Policy
The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results.
The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest scientific institution in the nation to adopt an open-access policy and among the first public universities to do so.
“Our primary motivation is to make our research available to anyone who is interested in it, whether they are members of the general public or scientists without costly subscriptions to journals,” said Richard A. Schneider, PhD, chair of the UCSF Academic Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, who spearheaded the initiative at UCSF. “The decision is a huge step forward in eliminating barriers to scientific research,” he said. “By opening the currently closed system, this policy will fuel innovation and discovery, and give the taxpaying public free access to oversee their investments in research.”
UCSF is the nation’s largest public recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), receiving 1,056 grants last year, valued at $532.8 million. Research from those and other grants leads to more than 4,500 scientific papers each year in highly regarded, peer-reviewed scientific journals, but the majority of those papers are only available to subscribers who pay ever-increasing fees to the journals. The 10-campus University of California (UC) system spends close to $40 million each year to buy access to journals.
Such restrictions and costs have been cited among the obstacles in translating scientific advances from laboratory research into improved clinical care.
The new policy requires UCSF faculty to make each of their articles freely available immediately through an open-access repository, and thus accessible to the public through search engines such as Google Scholar. Articles will be deposited in a UC repository, other national open-access repositories such as the NIH-sponsored PubMed Central, or published as open-access publications. They will then be available to be read, downloaded, mined, or distributed without barriers.
Schneider said hurdles do remain, including convincing commercial publishers to modify their exclusive publication contracts to accommodate such a policy. Some publishers already have demonstrated their willingness to do so, he said, but others, especially premier journals, have been less inclined to allow the system to change.
Under terms negotiated with the NIH, a major proponent of open access, some of the premier journals only allow open access in PubMed Central one year after publication; prior to that only the titles and summaries of articles are freely available. How such journals will handle the UCSF policy remains to be seen, Schneider said.
The UCSF policy gives the university a nonexclusive license to distribute any peer-reviewed articles that will also be published in scientific or medical journals. Researchers are able to “opt out” if they want to publish in a certain journal but find that the publisher is unwilling to comply with the UCSF policy. “The hope,” said Schneider, “is that faculty will think twice about where they publish, and choose to publish in journals that support the goals of the policy.”
Worldwide Open Access Movement
UC was at the forefront of the movement to open scientific papers to the public through its libraries, and generated the first major effort to create a policy of this kind in 2006. It was a complex policy, though, requiring faculty to “opt in,” and for a variety of reasons failed to garner enough faculty votes across the UC system, said Schneider. But since then, he said, the academic and economic climate has changed substantially in favor of the open access movement.
In the past few years, 141 universities worldwide, including Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have learned from UC’s initial missteps and have created very effective blanket policies similar to the one just passed at UCSF, Schneider said. Universities throughout Europe and Latin America also have pursued similar policies. Moreover, many funders have adopted open access policies for their grant recipients as a requirement for getting a research award, so faculty are now used to the practice of making their work freely available.
Last year, scientific, technical, and medical journals generated billions of dollars in profits for their publishers, and, for the largest publishers, profit margins were around 30 percent to 40 percent Schneider said. Yet, research papers are largely funded by taxpayers, submitted to the journals without compensation, and edited and reviewed on a volunteer basis by colleagues throughout the world. Due to the high fees incurred in subscribing to such journals, many universities and the general public have access only to an abstract on each paper, which includes a short description of the research and its results.
The UCSF vote was the result of a faculty-led initiative and makes UCSF the first campus in the UC system to implement such a policy. It has been developed in collaboration with other UC campuses and systemwide committees, especially the UC Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, with the ultimate goal of implementing the policy across all ten UC campuses.
“This vote is very, very good news,” said Karen Butter, UCSF librarian and assistant vice chancellor. “I am delighted that UCSF will join leading institutions in changing the model of scientific communications, and that UCSF authors have chosen to take control of their scholarship, providing new audiences with incredible opportunities to translate UCSF’s remarkable research into improving health care.”
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.

The US Supreme Court has ruled and now we must determine what’s next for America’s healthcare system.
This month the Center for Practical Bioethics will conduct a Virtual Town Hall Meeting on The Future of Health Reform. There are two purposes for this virtual meeting: to inform all of us about the nature of this change, and to engage in a conversation about what this means to you.
Each week of August the Center will share information and commentary from a broad range of individuals with a keen interest in how this process unfolds. At the same time, you will be given an opportunity to provide input and respond to what the experts say.
So join us in this Virtual Town Hall Meeting. Click here to view this week's video conversation with Art Caplan, PhD, and to participate in the weekly poll on health reform.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

That's right! As a service to you, we obtain material from libraries worldwide. If the item you want is unavailable in the Dykes Library collection, we'll find it for you.

Using the ILLiadelectronic system, students, staff, faculty and any registered patron can obtain materials that support scholarly research. Articles are typically delivered online to your ILLiad account within just two business days.

Regular delivery requests for KUMC faculty, staff and students are either $3.00 or free! Please see our fee chart for additional information.

You can also place an order for a book, book chapter, conference paper or thesis. Take a look at ILLiad today!

Monday, July 9, 2012

Like the rest of
the Medical Center, we librarians are proud of our researchers! We are so
proud, in fact, that we created and continue to maintain an awesome toolcalled
Meet Our Experts that features expertise
and the range of scholarship across disciplines at The University of Kansas
Medical Center.

Meet Our Experts
currently features approximately 17,100 works
from about 1100 KUMC researchers from
both the Kansas City and Wichita campuses. It is maintained by 15 librarians
and staff at Dykes Library.

For more
information about Meet Our Experts and how it works, visit our FAQ page.

Join us at Dykes
Library in celebrating the researchers and clinical experts at The University
of Kansas Medical Center!

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

PeerJ, an new Open Access Journal, launched June 12. Here is a Publishers Weekly article containing an interview with cofounder Peter
Binfield, formerly with PLoS1. PeerJ will operate on a basic lifetime
author fee of $99 for article publishing with expanded publishing
options available.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Here is an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education about the Acces2Research petition circulating from the White House's We the People public petition website. The petition is close to getting its required 25,000 signatures. When the number is received, the petition will go to the White House Chief of Staff for a response. The petition asks President Obama to mandate that eleven other federal agencies make their federally funded research results freely available to the public, similar to the NIH mandate that places its funded research resulting in scholarly, peer reviewed articles into PubMed Central.

As University Libraries continue to reduce their journal acquisitions due to mandated library resources funding reductions, commercial publishers will face losing their primary customer base, and thus, their profit margins. This article features Elsevier publishing. University libraries are exploring the growing Open Access model as an alternative to license and subscription-based journal purchasing.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute is hosting its 2012 Research Symposium on Thursday, May 31: The Power of Collaboration in Translational Research. Please go here for more information.
Additionally, there is an article in The KC Star which gives a nice explanation of what Translational Research is written by an VP at the Kauffman Foundation.

Friday, May 25, 2012

The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results.

The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest scientific institution in the nation to adopt an open-access policy and among the first public universities to do so.

“Our primary motivation is to make our research available to anyone who is interested in it, whether they are members of the general public or scientists without costly subscriptions to journals,” said Richard A. Schneider, PhD, chair of the UCSF Academic Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, who spearheaded the initiative at UCSF. “The decision is a huge step forward in eliminating barriers to scientific research,” he said. “By opening the currently closed system, this policy will fuel innovation and discovery, and give the taxpaying public free access to oversee their investments in research.”

UCSF is the nation’s largest public recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), receiving 1,056 grants last year, valued at $532.8 million. Research from those and other grants leads to more than 4,500 scientific papers each year in highly regarded, peer-reviewed scientific journals, but the majority of those papers are only available to subscribers who pay ever-increasing fees to the journals. The 10-campus University of California (UC) system spends close to $40 million each year to buy access to journals.

Such restrictions and costs have been cited among the obstacles in translating scientific advances from laboratory research into improved clinical care.

The new policy requires UCSF faculty to make each of their articles freely available immediately through an open-access repository, and thus accessible to the public through search engines such as Google Scholar. Articles will be deposited in a UC repository, other national open-access repositories such as the NIH-sponsored PubMed Central, or published as open-access publications. They will then be available to be read, downloaded, mined, or distributed without barriers.

Schneider said hurdles do remain, including convincing commercial publishers to modify their exclusive publication contracts to accommodate such a policy. Some publishers already have demonstrated their willingness to do so, he said, but others, especially premier journals, have been less inclined to allow the system to change.

Under terms negotiated with the NIH, a major proponent of open access, some of the premier journals only allow open access in PubMed Central one year after publication; prior to that only the titles and summaries of articles are freely available. How such journals will handle the UCSF policy remains to be seen, Schneider said.

The UCSF policy gives the university a nonexclusive license to distribute any peer-reviewed articles that will also be published in scientific or medical journals. Researchers are able to “opt out” if they want to publish in a certain journal but find that the publisher is unwilling to comply with the UCSF policy. “The hope,” said Schneider, “is that faculty will think twice about where they publish, and choose to publish in journals that support the goals of the policy.”

Worldwide Open Access Movement

UC was at the forefront of the movement to open scientific papers to the public through its libraries, and generated the first major effort to create a policy of this kind in 2006. It was a complex policy, though, requiring faculty to “opt in,” and for a variety of reasons failed to garner enough faculty votes across the UC system, said Schneider. But since then, he said, the academic and economic climate has changed substantially in favor of the open access movement.

In the past few years, 141 universities worldwide, including Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have learned from UC’s initial missteps and have created very effective blanket policies similar to the one just passed at UCSF, Schneider said. Universities throughout Europe and Latin America also have pursued similar policies. Moreover, many funders have adopted open access policies for their grant recipients as a requirement for getting a research award, so faculty are now used to the practice of making their work freely available.

Last year, scientific, technical, and medical journals generated billions of dollars in profits for their publishers, and, for the largest publishers, profit margins were around 30 percent to 40 percent Schneider said. Yet, research papers are largely funded by taxpayers, submitted to the journals without compensation, and edited and reviewed on a volunteer basis by colleagues throughout the world. Due to the high fees incurred in subscribing to such journals, many universities and the general public have access only to an abstract on each paper, which includes a short description of the research and its results.

The UCSF vote was the result of a faculty-led initiative and makes UCSF the first campus in the UC system to implement such a policy. It has been developed in collaboration with other UC campuses and systemwide committees, especially the UC Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, with the ultimate goal of implementing the policy across all ten UC campuses.

“This vote is very, very good news,” said Karen Butter, UCSF librarian and assistant vice chancellor. “I am delighted that UCSF will join leading institutions in changing the model of scientific communications, and that UCSF authors have chosen to take control of their scholarship, providing new audiences with incredible opportunities to translate UCSF’s remarkable research into improving health care.”

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Dykes Library has been awarded a 1-year license for software called Health Literacy Advisor from Health Literacy Innovations, Inc. The MidContinental Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine awarded licenses to regional libraries. Described on the HLA website "[a]s a health literacy checker, the HLA streamlines the review and simplification process by allowing users to assess the health of their documents and then fix it using plain language principles."

Documents can be reviewed for readability level and the results stamped in the footer. The software will scan the document and highlight words that compromise the readability. It will then make recommendations for improvement.

The Health Literacy Advisor program will run for 1 year from the end of April 2012 through the end of April 2013. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00006-C with the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.

For more information about how to access the software, contact Amy Ritterskamp at Dykes Library at 588-7168 or aritterskamp@kumc.edu

Friday, May 11, 2012

Another new series has been added, Macrophage Heterogeneity and Function as well as a number of new talks in existing series such as Cells of the Innate Immune System Series and Good Laboratory Practice Series.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The library is currently hiring for a part-time Student Assistant. You
must maintain a minimum of 6 credit hours per semester to qualify. The schedule
consists 10-15 hours each week, between 8:00 am-5:00 pm, Monday thru
Friday.

Duties:

1.Use citations to locate
and retrieve journals/books in the library’s physical collection

2.Scan/photocopy/attach and
send articles to other libraries or individuals via electronic
transmission.

3.Package books for
delivery via UPS or courier

4.Work on special projects
and other duties as assigned

If interested, please apply in person at the front desk, or email the
hiring manager at rsm@kumc.edu for the application
packet.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Dr. Jonathan D. Moreno, Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, has posted an interesting essay on the Huffington Post, titled, "Check This Box: Science Is Getting Easier/Harder/Both/Neither?" Dr. Moreno asserts, "...science is asking more precise questions but the answers are harder to get." He also writes, "In a way, we've already plucked much of the low-hanging fruit. Though it took tens of thousands of years to get on track, once we got there we learned fast. How low-hanging the fruit of new knowledge is depends in part on how we approach it. We seem to be in a transition period from a marvelously rich era of discovery in the last thirty years to an era in which new concepts and methods will be required to gain access to another range of powerful discoveries."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-d-moreno/check-this-box-science-is_b_1408938.html?ref=science

The AAMC, as a partner in the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), has announced a call for submissions for competency-based learning and assessment resources, in support of the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice report. Funded in part by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, this initiative is designed to create a national clearinghouse of competency-linked learning resources for interprofessional education and models of team-based or collaborative care. The AAMC, with guidance from the IPEC-MedEdPORTAL Advisory Committee, will select up to fifteen (15) applicants for resource development awards of $2,000 to accelerate content refinement in preparation for formal submission and peer-review to MedEdPORTAL. The award application deadline is Friday, May 25, 2012 at 5p (EDT) with applicants notified of funding decisions by June 18, 2012.
http://www.mededportal.org/ipe

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Dykes Library has debuted a new online reservation system for study rooms called Book It! Find the Book It! icon on the homepage, log-in using your username and password, and reserve a study room* without the assistance of front desk staff. Study rooms will also be self-service - doors will remain unlocked and staff will not be checking out keys anymore! If a room is empty, you may "walk in" to use it and reserve it on the spot until the next student who has reserved it (if any) shows up.

Please feel free to send comments to dykesref@kumc.edu or stop by the front desk to let us know how the system works for you.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Just because a publisher claims to be open access and follows the author pays fees OA Model,not all publishers are on the up-and-up. Have you been solicited to publish in a particular journal? Are you skeptical? How can you be sure the journal is reputable?

Features to look for and verify:

Are there typos or grammatical errors? That's usually a flag.

Did you check the databases in which the journal claims to appear and find them? If you didn't find them, that's a flag. Example: the journal title claims to be indexed in PubMed but you can't find the journal title in PubMed. Not good.

Did you find any journal issues in the archive? In the current journal list? If you can't find back issues or if there are only a couple of back issues or maybe just an image of a journal flyer, that's a flag.

What is the pricing structure? How many journal articles will be accepted during the membership time frame? Is the pricing information clear? Is there a mechanism in place in which you agree or not agree to pay? Be careful.

Are you prompted to check with your Institution to find out if there is an Institution-paid membership on your behalf? If not, be careful.

What do you get for the price? Beware of publishers who offer you a certificate of membership suitable for framing and/or a designated title to add to your signature. Example: Publisher boasts that membership includes certificate suitable for framing and permission to add their group member designation behind your signature: I. M. Smart, MD, Member, Association of Predatory Publishers (MAPP)

A publisher may claim to provide peer review and to list an impressive editorial board. Contact the listed board members to verify.

Be skeptical when you are solicited to publish anywhere. If you find any of the above flags, or others, beware and seek assistance from your librarian liaison.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

On January 3, we upgraded Archie to the latest DSpace software release, version 1.8.1. This release includes new features and bug fixes. We've also added some customizations requested by KUMC faculty.
Some of the more noticeable changes include:

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Health Affairs reports, "Despite the widely held assumption that having computer access to patients' test results will reduce testing, a new study shows that doctors who have such access to tests in the ambulatory care setting are more likely to order imaging and lab tests. Researchers writing in the March issue of the journal Health Affairs say their findings challenge one premise of the nation's multibillion-dollar effort to promote widespread adoption of health information technology (HIT). They warn that the effort 'may not yield anticipated cost savings from reductions in duplicative or inappropriate diagnostic testing' and, in fact, could drive costs up."http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/3/488.abstract

Academic Medicine is now available for the iPad. The journal has released a new app for iPad, available now through the App Store. The app offers a print-like reading experience of each issue, with easy-to-read, full-text articles; adjustable text sizing with “pinch and zoom;” access to tables, figures, and supplemental content; ability to store or delete downloaded issues; and convenient notification when a new issue is available. The March issue, released last week, is free to download for non-subscribers.http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Pages/iPad-App.aspx

Monday, March 5, 2012

Trying to access USMLE-Easy via AccessMedicine? Update your bookmarks because USMLE-Easy is no longer available via the AccessMedicine database; it is now accessible at its own website; click here for access. If you haven't set up a personal account yet you may do that on the homepage; if you're a returning user, enter your previous username and password for access to the tests and your personal progress reports. If you have trouble accessing USMLE Easy, please contact Bob Pisciotta at bpisciotta@kumc.edu for assistance.

Friday, March 2, 2012

A new systematic review of evidence conducted by Mathematica Policy Research in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and published in the American Journal of Managed Care "reveals that the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model has the potential to improve quality of care, hospital care, and patient experience within the healthcare system." According to Mathematica, "The review was conducted to help inform healthcare reform policy and program efforts across the nation and to offer guidance in how to better structure future evaluations."http://tinyurl.com/8xlp5zl

Thursday, March 1, 2012

The library is currently hiring for a part-time Student Assistant. You must maintain a minimum of 6 credit hours per semester to qualify. Work schedule is 8-12 hours each week, between the hours of 8:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

Duties:

1.Use citations to locate and retrieve journals/books in the library’s physical collection

2.Scan/photocopy/attach and send articles to other libraries or individuals via electronic transmission.

3.Package books for delivery via UPS or courier

4.Work on special projects and other duties as assigned

If interested, please apply in person at the front desk, or email the hiring manager at rsm@kumc.edu for the application packet.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Our colleagues at AAHRPP recently brought to our attention a new World Health Organization publication, “Standards and Operational Guidance for Ethics Review of Health-Related Research with Human Participants.” This document "has been developed for individuals and organizations involved in health-related research with human participants, including biomedical, behavioural, social science, and epidemiological research...In particular, this document is intended to provide guidance to the research ethics committees (RECs) on which organizations rely to review and oversee the ethical aspects of research, as well as to the researchers who design and carry out health research studies."http://www.who.int/ethics/publications/en/

Corey Harper: http://www.tagasauris.com/ does Crowdsourcing social network sites to tag photos. But how do you map "canonical" descriptions/metadata to that data…approaching "aboutness". Then geo-tag. Recruiting others (turk it) to use Google Refine to map the data.

Installed Blacklight on my Mac and imported a tiny set of MARC records from Voyager.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Keynote.

Dan Chudnov, GWU

"ketone" :)

"I love you, but we blew it! We have turned away too many people."

Retraced his family and personal history noting that "things fall apart." Retraced history and current state of Code4Lib, warning that "if we don't change, this thing will fall out from under us". People will stop trying to get in next year to attend the conference if we don't make room for them.

Non-techies want to learn to do what we do.

We must "Hack or Die"!

PyCon is a good model. 2 days of pre-conf training at all levels. Post-conf sprint days.
"Chicago's ready, are you?"

Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Session 1.

Git and Mercurial

Using version control on metadata

Mentioned in IRC: richard anderson at Stanford recently release a comparison of version control systems for "repository objects"

Case 2: Zephir metadata management system for HathiTrust. "Individually, this has been a fantastic decision." Everything works great, but when you're dealing with 10mill files, it's wicked slow.

If it looks like code, even if it's data, it will probably work.

Linked-Data-Ready Software for Libraries, eXtensible Catalog

Setting stage for linked data: converting MARC data to FRBR, designed schema for mapping to triples, developed platform to create linked data.

Bulk conversion of existing metadata, sync data conversion to existing systems, allow libraries to do it themselves, provide a way to experiment with data, make linked data available to developers (find out what libraries need, what developers want)

NCIP toolkit has a Voyager driver? Should we use this with VuFind and also to provide linked data.

Notre Dame's Atrium project is designed to be used as just a Blacklight extension or with the full Hydra stack for collections mgmt.

IRC channel #projecthydra

Head for curating dataset is at top of priorities, but real-world solutions have fizzled.

Breakout reports

Building OSS communities. Building a Library a la Carte community. U of Oregon maintaining. Testing an Amazon cloud deployment. FOSS4Lib bringing together libraries and programmers for pitching and developing ideas.

Schema.org and Microdata. Interest in use for citation data, datasets.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Lightning Talks.

XTF.

Save MLAK. Code4LibJapan.

Created wiki for sharing information - actually worked well. Tshirts and bags for donations.

Heat Maps, not just for input analysis. Let's get grad students to teach instruction sessions. Identifying times of greatest need because grad students have limited time and have to travel.

ElasticSearch. Gabriel Farrell. All JSON. Clustering and sharding out of the box. All interaction is with http and JSON. JSON-based document store.

NISO wants to hear about your problems. What environment or conditions are needed for addressing problems for interoperability? Several working groups available.

Finding Images in Book Page Images. PicturePages, Eric Larson. Grabbing book page images with curl, run thru ImageMagick with some crazy processing.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive using Blacklight against EAD/MARC.

Finding Movies with FRBR and Facets. Making it easier to find movies in libraries. People want to find movies, but libraries describe *publications*. Users don't care about a lot of the stuff we do, but they do care about versions (Blu-Ray, DVD, language). FRBRized records. only one hit per movie title, with multiple versions listed under it.